Objeto de esc?ndalo tras su publicaci?n, libro de cabecera de la cultura hippie, biblia de Charles Manson y sus seguidores, Forastero en tierra extra?a es la novela m?s pol?mica e iconoclasta del g?nero de ciencia ficci?n. Humano por parte de padres, marciano por nacimiento y educaci?n, Valentine Michael Smith llega a la Tierra como un aut?ntico forastero. Pese a su ascendencia terrestre, Smith piensa y siente como un marciano y no tiene nada en com?n con los seres humanos. Su peripecia en nuestro planeta se convertir? en motivo de asombro y esc?ndalo all? donde vaya…Autor de novelas tan c?lebres como “Historia del futuro”, “El n?mero de la bestia” y la presente, Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) es, junto con Asimov y A. C. Clarke, uno de los m?ximos exponentes de la ciencia ficci?n cl?sica.
The trilogy depicts an Earth-like world on a moon which orbits a gas giant, inhabited by a species of highly evolved, sentient Tyrannosaurs called Quintaglios, among various other creatures from the late cretaceous period, imported to this moon by aliens 65 million years prior to the story.
An elegantly crafted and beguiling novel set in the very near future. Anna Quibler is a technocrat at the National Science Foundation while her husband, Charlie, takes care of their toddler and telecommutes as a legislative consultant to a senator. Their family life is a delight to observe, as are the interactions of the scientists at the NSF and related organizations. When a Buddhist delegation, whose country is being flooded because of climate change, opens an embassy near the NSF, the Quiblers befriend them and teach them to work the system of politics and grants. The Buddhists, in turn, ...
The blockbuster new novel by science fiction great Hal Clement, set in an alien-run universe created by Isaac Asimov himself. This is the story of six vastly different starfaring races coexisting under a precarious truce — an interstellar community to which the human race has recently been added.
The trilogy depicts an Earth-like world on a moon which orbits a gas giant, inhabited by a species of highly evolved, sentient Tyrannosaurs called Quintaglios, among various other creatures from the late cretaceous period, imported to this moon by aliens 65 million years prior to the story.
In Ann Aguirre’s award-winning novel, , humans have taken refuge in colonies below ground. Here is the story of what drove them there, told through the eyes of a teen who would later have vast influence over the fate of many, and who gave his heart to the one person who needed him most.At the publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations has come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation have proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon’s long-established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all—and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now two exiled citizens of the Foundation—a renegade Councilman and a doddering historian—set out in search of the mythical planet Earth . . . and proof that the Second Foundation still exists.Meanwhile, someone—or something—outside both Foundations seems to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final, shocking destiny at the very end of the universe.
Pierre Tardivel, a French Canadian geneticist, works on identifying junk DNA for the Human Genome Project. There is a 50 percent chance that Pierre is carrying the gene for Huntington’s disease, a fatal disorder. That knowledge drives Pierre to succeed in a race against time to complete his research. But a strange set of circumstances — including a knife attack, the in vitro fertilization of his wife, and an insurance company plot to use DNA samples to weed out clients predisposed to early deaths — draw Tardivel into a story that will ultimately involve the hunt for a Nazi death camp doctor.
A desperate man with Olympic-level allergies, and a new-age masseuse who'll go to extremes to clear the blockage. It was my goal to write the first graphic sinus story, and by God, I still have the genre to myself. Not for the squeamish.
Picking up a few months after the end of Daemon (2009), Suarez continues his popular technothriller and SF saga. The computer program Daemon has taken over the Internet, and millions have joined its virtual world. Now the effect is spilling into the real world as Daemon assumes control of financial institutions, and the program’s real-life converts flock to small towns to re-create a sustainable lifestyle amid the agribusiness monoculture of the Midwest. Despite a slow start, Freedom picks up speed by the second half with Daemon’s supporters and detractors facing off for the control of civilization. Only readers ...
Freitag ist ihr Name. Sie ist ein Retortenbaby, und man hat dies und das an ihr verbessert. Sie ist normalen Menschen ?berlegen: im Erdulden von Schmerzen, in ihren Reflexen, in ihrer Ausdauer — und in ihrer Sch?nheit.Das macht sie zu einer begehrten Sexpartnerin ebenso wie zu einer t?dlichen Waffe. Den normalen Menschen ist sie unheimlich. Sie lehnen sie ab, haben Angst vor ihr — weil sie ein Kunstprodukt ist, ein „Ding“. Und sie wird auch von ihren Auftraggebern skrupellos als „Ding“ benutzt, vom Geheimdienst in Situationen gehetzt, die f?r andere Agenten absolut t?dlich w?ren.
